Elegance
“Why has elegance found so little following?”
Edsger Dijkstra
Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category.
Sometimes failures are the foundations of success – Apple’s Newton & iPhone
“As somebody once said, there’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco.
A failure is simply the non-presence of success. Any fool can accomplish failure.
But a fiasco… a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
A fiasco is a folktale told to others that makes other people feel more alive because it didn’t happen to them.”
from Elizabethtown with Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst
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Apple’s PDA Newton is probably the most famous Apple’s fiasco. This product was 15 years ahead and is probably the ancestor of every PDA and handheld platform that we have today.
Development of the newton platform started in 1987 and officially ended on February 27, 1998. Apple’s Newton and the iPhone are based on ARM processors. 162MHz on the Newton, 412MHz on the (first-gen) iPhone.
Wright Brothers Human Flight – sweat and blood for a dream
There are stories of how every time the Wright brothers went out,
they would have to take five sets of parts,
because that’s how many times they would crash before they came in for supper.
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On December 17 1903 the Wright Brothers took flight.
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Invented and built by Wilbur and Orville Wright
Flown by them at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina December 17, 1903
Check also Charlie Taylor
Henry Miller – Perspective
“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
Steve McCurry a Milano
“Non saprai mai qual è la vera destinazione del tuo viaggio,puoi solo metterti in cammino,
poiché è nel percorso che incontri la vita.”
Elliot Erwitt
“You really don’t have to know too much in order to be a photographer.
What you need to do, is simply to look.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Il n’y a rien dans ce monde qui n’ait un moment decisif”
“There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment”
“Photography is not like painting, there is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.”
Ed McCabe – Creativity
“Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.”
Ed McCabe
Paracelsus – Posion
“Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.”
Paracelsus
Jean-Flavien Lalive – Tibet
“What happened in Tibet yesterday may happen in our own countries tomorrow . . . [but] ideas will penetrate where bullets will not.”
ICJ Secretary General Jean-Flavien Lalive, July of 1959
